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Questions tagged [basic-disk]

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Converting dynamic to basic disk

I converted basic disk to dynamic on my laptop. However, now I cannot install Windows 7 on another partition. I just get message that installing them on dynamic disk is not supported. Is there a way to convert dynamic disk to basic without losing…
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Alignment requirements: converting basic disk to dynamic disk in order to set up software RAID?

On Windows 7 x64 Professional I am struggling to convert a basic disk to a dynamic one. Under Disk Management in the MMC the conversion is supposed to be initiated automatically, but it doesn't. My guess: because of using third-party partitioning…
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Dual boot Windows 7 with Windows 8- Dynamic Disk

I have a HP Pavilion dm4 notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled. Recently, I tried to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on my notebook, but while installing, it only allowed me to insatll it on my primary Windows 7 drive (C:). I had…
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Convert Spanned Dynamic disk to Basic Help needed

Here is my scenario; Windows 2008 server on a VM. Two VM disks; Disk1> OS (Basic ) Disk2> Data and an Installed Application. (Basic) During the weekend, I was playing with this VM, I wanted to add some space to the Disk2. I created a new disk…
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on a server does master boot record formating of the disk support the dynamic disk type?

If I convert a disk from basic to dynamic is it possible to format it to master boot record (MBR) or is it just possible to format with GPT?
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Why all drives are converting to dynamic when I created one

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my new Lenovo G570 laptop. I left some unallocated space so as to create few dynamic drives as there is a limit for primary. So, when I created a dynamic drive from unallocated space, windows changed all drive…
Surya Kasturi
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which software is better for creating and changing DYNAMIC disks(partitions)?

i have a laptop that it's 1 TeraByte hard disk is dynamic(not basic). i want to change that hard drive with a third party program for creating new patitions. so i tried Acronis Disk Director Advanced (server) v11, but it seems it does not support…
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How to recover overwritten partition table for Windows Dynamic Disk?

I had 2 drives in storage set to Dynamic Spanned in Windows. I took one of them, converted it to Basic, and only then did I realize I needed access to the data on these drives as it wasn't yet backed up. It's still unformatted. Is it possible to get…
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what does it mean "dynamic disks support MBR and GPT"?

I'm confused "Do Dynamic disks have GPT and MBR or not?" while in this page, number 3 in table it says there is no partition in Dynamic disks against basic disks that have GPT and MBR partition styles on the other hand in this page of microsoft it…
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How are third party Disk Utility Tools able perfrom operations not possible with OS Disk Utility Tools?

I by mistake converted my 1TB internal HDD used for storing data to dynamic disk. Windows is in another SSD. Now I want to install another OS in the HDD but it is not possible with dynamic disk. It has around 800GB of data and it is not possible for…
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Dynamic disk has fragmented partitions

I want to convert my dynamic disc into basic but my disc disc got fragmented like this(see the image attached)
Thulashitharan D
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How to turn only HDD back to basic after accidentally creating 5th partition?

I was trying to create a separate partition for use with an ISO image on USB drive as it was a Linux program. I succeeded, along with turning my only drive from basic into dynamic. It has my Windows 7 OS / boot files everything, it is my main :C…
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How to change a dynamic disk to basic if its the only disk and windows is installed on it?

When trying to create additional partitions (to allow multiboot with Ubuntu), I accidantially changed my hard drive from basic to dynamic. Every description I found on the internet recommends to use either a paid software, or to delete every volume…
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After having 3 partitions, the disk converted to a dynamic disk and I cannot change it back (Windows 7)

I started off with one disk, and it was a basic disk. I partitioned it to install Windows 8.1, then ran out of space, so I made another partition, and extended my Windows 8 partition into that. But then, Windows 8 stopped booting, and that was…
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